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Improvement in Boots.

Patented Sep.3, 1872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

WILLIAM W. WHITCOMB, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,041, datedSeptember 3, 1872.

' specification:

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

My invention relates to and is an improvement upon the invention ofPresbury West, for which Letters Patent were granted him dated 30thJanuary, 1872, and numbered 123,316, being for a high-legged boot havingthe side seams of the leg closed on the outside and covered by outsidestrips or braces throughout their entire length. My invention consistsin extending the upper end of said outside or covering strip or braceand forming therefrom the drawing strap or loop.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

`Figure 1 shows the outside of the boot-leg with the brace extendedsufficiently to form the strap, and also shows the notch n rstdescribed. Fig. 2 shows the inside of the boot-leg with the end of theextended brace turned over and stitched through, forming astraddle-strap.7 Fig. 3 shows another form of the strap, and the notchor opening b, second described.

My purpose is to employ this coveringbrace as a drawing strap or loop,and I can either use it as above described, or, by intermitting thestitching, form a loop between it and theboot-leg. In this case Ihave aspace of two or three inches near the top of the leg unstitched, and'then above that stitch firmly. I thus dispense with the use of extrastraps or loops, and avoid the expense attending their use and Apreferable way to convert the extended brace described into adrawing-strap is to stitch the brace up to a point about one and a halfinch below the top of the boot-leg, and then turn it over into thebootleg so that itshall straddle its side, and stitch it fast on theinside at about the point where the stitching of the brace terminates onthe outside, thus forming what is known as a straddle-strap. I then cutaway the leather of the boot leg at the top within the loop of thestrap, forming a triangular notch therein, as shown in Fig. 1, letter cof the drawing, to give more room for and to get rid of the seam thatmight otherwise interfere with the fingers in pulling on the boot. vThisdevice also makes the boot-leg more expansible at the top, enables themanufacturer, oftentimes, -to cut a boot-leg from a piece of lleatherdefective at the point where I make the notch, and but for which thedefect would necessitate piecing, and the notch, being concealed by thestrap, is no deformity to the boot. When the strap is made by stitchingthe brace up to a point two or three inches below the top of theboot-leg, and then intermitting the stitching and leaving the brace alittle slack for about that space, again stitching firmly, or otherwisesecurely fastening it, at or near the top, the notch is made as in Fig.3, letter b-that is to say, by cutting out a circular or otherwiseshaped opening in the side of the boot-leg' within the loop, and belowthe top, stitching or fastening. With either form of strap many of theadvan tages of the notch or opening described can be obtained by`.simply leaving the boot-leg unstitched within the loop, cutting away somuch of the edges of the leather as would be taken up by the stitching.It is not essential that the extended brace should be cut in onecontinuous strip, or made exclusively of one material. For economy itmay be cut in two or more parts, so juxtaposed as to form one extendedstrip on the boot.

Claims.

I claim as my invention- 1. The strap of a boot formed from an cxtensionof the covering strip or brace on the side of the boot-leg,substantially as described.`

Witnesses: d

WM. AsPINwALL, WILLIAM STANDIsH.

